This single serving peanut butter cookie recipe will satisfy your strongest peanut butter cookie cravings, and there’s no need to share!
Easy single serving cookie recipe
Want a chewy peanut butter cookie?
What about an easy recipe that makes just one soft homemade peanut butter cookie, doesn’t require any eggs, and can be whipped up in just ten minutes flat?
Whether you live alone or simply do not want the temptation of an entire batch of cookies, this single serving peanut butter cookie is the perfect answer.
Also make these Peanut Butter Truffles
Single serving peanut butter cookie ingredients
The recipe calls for peanut butter, pure vanilla extract, flour, baking soda, salt, sweetener of choice, milk of choice, and optional ingredients like chocolate chips or chopped peanuts.
Flours that work include spelt, white, whole wheat pastry, oat (my favorite), and almond flour for a keto version. I do not recommend coconut flour here.
You can use any all purpose liquid or granulated sweetener, including pure maple syrup, agave, honey (not for vegans), brown sugar, white sugar, coconut sugar, or granulated erythritol or xylitol for a sugar free cookie.
Liquid sweeteners yield a more cakey cookie, while cookies made with granulated sugar have a more chewy texture.
Almond butter, cashew butter, macadamia nut butter, or nut free sunflower butter all work as peanut free alternatives.
*For a larger serving, make Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
Step by step recipe video
How to make a peanut butter cookie for one
Preheat an oven or toaster oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
If using natural peanut butter from the refrigerator, either let it sit out for a few hours or gently warm it until soft and easily stir-able.
Stir together the flour, salt, baking soda, optional chopped peanuts, and granulated sugar (if using). Then mix in the peanut butter, vanilla extract, milk of choice, and any liquid sweetener you might be using.
If using a dry sugar instead of a liquid one, slowly add in just a little extra milk to achieve a peanut butter cookie dough texture.
Form into one large cookie or two smaller cookie shapes. Place on a cookie tray, and bake for seven minutes. They should look a little underdone after this time. Let cool before handling, during which time the cookies will firm up considerably.
A few readers have reported success in a microwave, but I have not tried it yet here. If you prefer, I do have a chocolate chip recipe for Microwave Cookies.
Storing leftovers
The best and worst part about making a single serving cookie is that there are not likely to be any leftovers.
However, if you wish to save time and combine all of the peanut butter cookie ingredients the night before, you can store the unbaked cookie dough ball in a covered container in the fridge or freezer until ready to use.
Or if you have more willpower than I do, bake the cookie ahead of time. Then let it cool before enjoying the next day or freezing in an airtight container to enjoy within two months.
The recipe was adapted from this Single Serving Protein Cookie.
Single Serving Peanut Butter Cookie
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp flour or almond meal
- 1 1/2 tbsp peanut butter or allergy friendly sub
- 1/16 tsp baking soda
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tbsp liquid or granulated sweetener of choice
- 1 tsp milk of choice or water
- optional chocolate chips, chopped peanuts
InstructionsÂ
- Flours and sweeteners that work are listed above in this post. If you use liquid sweetener, the results will be more cakey. If you use granulated sugar, the cookie will be more chewy.Preheat an oven or toaster oven to 350 F. If not soft, gently warm peanut butter until easily stir-able. Mix dry ingredients. Stir in wet ingredients. If using granulated sweetener, add extra milk of choice as needed to achieve a cookie dough texture. Mix well and form into one or two cookies. Flatten into cookie shapes and bake for 7 minutes. Let cool before handling, because it firms up as it cools. Readers have also reported success in a microwave, but I have not tried.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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These are absolutely delicious! I used pure light maple syrup, so they are cakey and warm and delicious!!! AHHHH I’m in love (:
I love this recipe so much. I make it for myself and my toddler all the time.
I’ve shared it on my own blog with a link back to you. 🙂
Here is where it is:
http://alternativehomemaker.blogspot.com/
Hello, I tried the PB cookies for one. I did mine in a small dessert bowl in the microwave. It was moist, like a cake rather than crispy like a cookie. I also used almond flour and barley malt. I would suggest another sweetener that resembles brown sugar as the flavor is better. Barley Malt didn’t do it. Thank you!
I made this recipe tonight. The cookie was divine! =)
Just made these- so good! I didn’t have apple sauce so I used greek yoghurt and used 1 tbsp of oats with 1 tbsp of whole wheat flour 🙂 They were a bit too sweet for my test with the maple syrup so next time I’ll use less of that and more of the yoghurt, but other than that they were amazing. Hard to believe with that with those healthy ingredients I’d get a cookie which didn’t taste healthy at all! They tasted just like the peanut butter cookies I had made from a cake mix years ago
Just made these tonight to have with The Perfect Hot Chocolate. Love them! I may add extra peanut butter next time or maybe use a different kind for more pb flavor. I used Earth Balance creamy peanut butter with flaxseed. Made them with agave so they were cakey but that’s good as it made the 2 good size cookies very filling. So happy I found your blog!
Did you know that when you copy and paste bulleted lists into a text file, the bullets show up as squares with no space after them, and have to be deleted? Still, I appreciate the recipes for one, as I have a diabetic husband who cannot have them, but I can, so I do, when he’s out working.
You’re one of the few healthy food blogs where my results look and taste just as good as your pictures. another success!
THIS RECIPE SERIOUSLY HIT THE SPOT! I used whole wheat flour, greek yogurt (instead of applesauce), and used my toaster oven. It was DELISH. Super soft (but maybe that’s because I left it in for too short a time) and peanut buttery, although I might add more next time. Definitely will make again and add in those chocolate chips!
I tried the peanut butter cookies both ways. The microwave I used the senor setting and I found that the cookies was dry in the centre. the oven cookie was much nicer.